‘Bonita’ sweetpotato [ Ipomoea batatas (L.) Lam.] was developed by the Louisiana Agricultural Experiment Station to provide a specialty-type white-fleshed, tan-skinned cultivar similar to ‘O'Henry’ but with southern root-knot nematode and soil rot

Arthur Villordon, Julio Solis, Don LaBonte and Christopher Clark

agroclimatic variables measured within 20 DAT and U.S. #1 sweetpotato yield from experimental plots under uniform management conditions. We assumed the absence of influence from weeds, disease, insect pests, and chemical injury. The long-term goal is to develop

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Viral diseases can lower sweetpotato yields. Currently, the most widely used control strategy for sweetpotatoviruses is the implementation of programs that provide virus-tested materials to growers. However

watermelons for the past six growing seasons in southwest and west-central Florida where it has caused significant economic impact to watermelon production. The virusdisease situation in watermelon (and cucurbits in general) recently worsened in Florida with